Category Descriptions

fangonk · 2008-03-29 04:09:20

Can anyone think of a way to append a description to an article category so that it can be called from an archive or default page? Is there a plugin for this?

thebombsite · 2008-03-29 09:04:13

Where did you want this description to appear?

fangonk · 2008-03-30 03:11:45

I wanted the description to appear on top of a list of recent articles from each category. So I can’t just insert an article because, it needs to be different for each category.

colak · 2008-03-30 07:31:34

Would something like this do?

<div class="yourclass"><txp:if_category name="your-category">
<p>Your 1st category description</p>
<ul><txp:article_custom form="your-form" category="your-category" sortdir="desc" limit="10"/></ul>
</txp:if_category></div>

<div class="yourclass"><txp:if_category name="your-2ndcategory">
<p>Your 2nd category description</p>
<ul><txp:article_custom form="your-form" category="your-2ndcategory" sortdir="desc" limit="10"/></ul>
</txp:if_category></div>

etc

where your-form contains <li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>

Zanza · 2008-03-30 10:24:39

I’m using upm_category_image to associate an image to categories and use the caption field of the image as cat description. I found it works pretty well. I made some modification to the code to textilize the caption, so that I can use link and other formatting.

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Last edited by Zanza (2008-03-30 17:54:13)

fangonk · 2008-03-30 13:52:16

Those are both great suggestions, I’ll play with them and see which works better. This seems like something that might be a good addition to the next release. Having to hack an image plugin or manually update a ton of code, is a lot of work for something that seems like a pretty standard feature. Oh well.

els · 2008-03-30 17:51:14

You could also use asy_wondertag, create a form for each category that holds the description, name it exactly like the category name, and call it on your page with

<txp:asy_wondertag>
     <txp:output_form form="<txp:category />" />
</txp:asy_wondertag>

fangonk · 2008-03-30 23:23:04

Ahh, perfect. I like this.

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